Are 'Jews for Jesus' jews ?

Answer 1

Messianic "Jews," are not Jews!
Messianic "Judaism" is not Judaism!
"Jews" for Jesus are not Jews!

Many people, Christians and some Jews as well, erroneously believe that just as one can be Black and Christian, just as one can be Oriental and Christian, one can also be Jewish and Christian. It is not true. The Jews are not a race. There is no genetic code passed from either mother or father to the child that makes that child a Jew. Even if all, or some, of the genetic code in a child could be proved to be of Jewish Origin, that would not make the child a Jew. Jewish law determines who is a Jew, and Jewish law is quite clear. If a person's mother is a Jew, and that person has not converted to another faith, then that person will be considered fully Jewish, so long as that person wishes to identify solely as a Jew. Although one cannot convert to become a member of a race, one who converts to Judaism does, indeed, become fully a Jew. Similarly, if one converts from Judaism to another faith, one is no longer a Jew.

Messianic "Judaism" is a product of the successful missionizing campaign of such ministries as the "Jews" for Jesus, who try to make it look as though one can be a Jew and a Christian at the same time. By definition, one who believes in Jesus as their savior is a Christian. One who accepts Jesus as anything other than a man who once lived, but died without doing anything the Real Messiah will do when he gets here (hence the reason for a Second Coming!), is a Christian and no longer a Jew.

The Orthodox Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, writing for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, the Orthodox Youth Group, in his book The Real Messiah, on page 21 wrote:

This brings us back to our original question:
What can a Jew lose by embracing Christianity?

The answer is: Everything.

Christianity negates the fundamentals of Jewish
faith, and one who accepts it rejects the very
essence of Judaism. Even if he continues to keep
all of the rituals, it is the same as if he
abandoned Judaism completely.

A Jew who accepts Christianity might call himself
a "Messianic 'Jew,'" but he is no longer a Jew.
He can no longer even be counted as part of a
Jewish Congregation.

We Jews define for ourselves who is and who is not a Jew, and not the Jewish wannabees, and the targets of this newest technique in missionizing Jews.

The majority of the membership of Messianic ""Jewish"" congregations, as a matter of fact, were not ever Jewish up until recently, and this is also true about their Messianic ""rabbis."" Many of these "rabbis" change their names to something that sounds stereotypically Jewish, in order to better target those they want to convert to Christianity.

As the success of this newest technique in missionizing the less knowledgeable Jews increased, the percentage of membership of ex-Jews as members of their messianic congregations has also increased, now running about 50-50.

It is also interesting to note that a large number of people converting TO Judaism have come to real Judaism from having been exposed to Messianic ""Judaism.""

At a messianic congregation, all references to Christian theology has been changed to make it sound more Jewish, and therefore more pallatable to their targets. They will only refer to Jesus as 'Yeshua' (which would not have been his name), they will say 'moshiach' instead of 'christ,' they will say 'synagogue' instead of 'church,' and on and on, in keeping with the techniques described in the book Understanding Church Growth by Donald MacGavran, who helped the idea of Indiginous Cultural Evangelism get started.

The services will sound very Jewish, usually a lot of (mispronounced) Hebrew, and prayers will have been changed to add the Christian theology of Jesus to them, again, to make the service more familiar to their targets.

Remember that these messianic congregations need member$hip, and so they also target those Christians who want to know more about the ""Jewish roots"" of Christianity as well.

When a Catholic converts to a Protestant denomination of Christianity, do they join a church and call themselves "Roman Catholics For No Pope"? This whole idea, that one can remain a Jew after converting to Christianity, was a technique to better missionize Jews, begun in the 1960's. What an insult to Christianity, that to get Jews to convert to Christianity, they had to stop calling themselves what they became:: Christians!

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Still only four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." ---Abraham Lincoln

Answer 2

Jews for Jesus are better known as Christians. They believe Jesus is the Messiah, and Jews do not believe Jesus is the Messiah, Jews believe the Messiah has yet to come.

You could look at it this way though, the original followers of Jesus as well as Jesus himself were Jews, so Christianity can be seen as just a branch of Judaism. The place where the two religions split is in how Jesus is seen.

Answer 3

answer: i have starred for my Jewish contacts. As I understand it (and that i is likewise incorrect) - Messianic Jews assume that Jesus is the messiah and that he became once divine. it really is in contradiction to the Jewish faith. That makes them Christians. Jesus did not meet the prophecies. He became supposedly of divine commencing position - the messiah is surely not. G-d can not develop into human. Jesus is geared up as a human sacrifice, taking up the sins of everybody - this is in competition to Jewish teachings. The Messiah is normally human and fulfill the entire prophecies in a unmarried life time - no 2d coming. there is not any commonly used sin to be saved from. No chance of hell. See how Christianity is incompatible with Judaism? you could not be Christian and Jewish even as. and there is not any Jewish bible. it really is a Christian time period. there will be the Tanakh, now not the historic testomony and no New testomony in Judaism. # # # If everybody would not imagine Jesus became divine, then he became in ordinary words a prophet and in no way the messiah. He did not meet the prophecies. Christians justify worshipping him in view that they declare he will go back and fulfill those he did not. If he became once a prophet, he received't be back. that suggests he could not be the messiah - divine or now not. He did not meet the prophecies. If every person believes Jesus became once a prophet maximum effective, that they'd extra probably be a Muslim. Jews don't sense he became once a prophet both. in the journey that they trust of him in any appreciate this is extra frequently than not as a instructor. # # # Then i have a question: does your Jewish bible have the sparkling testomony?

Answer 4

Contrairy to popular belief, Jews DO believe in Jesus. He is considered a profit. Another myth is that the Jews killed Christ. The only people who had any say about anything in Isreal at the time was the Romans. They could also BLAME IT ON anyone they wanted to.

Answer 5

no not at all.

the answers to this question highlight the difficulty in answering it. I wat to add one thing. The Chrsitian belief in the messiah is entirely different than the Jewish concept of the messiah. While one could technically believe that Jesus was the messiah, the Jewish belief of messiah has absolutly nothing to do with salvation or forgiveness of sin. furthermore, the Talmud, a book that is holy and contains binding laws of Judaism, says believing in Jesus as the messiah is wrong.

The Jewish belief in the messiah is a person who will rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and return Jews to Israel as a theological empire. There are Jewish texts that believe the messiah will furthermore bring peace on earth and also even raise the dead. But this still has nothign to do with accepting the messiah as a personal savior.

Therefore, believing in Jesus as a personal savior to forgive your sins, is completly non Jewish.

Answer 6

No, a Jew that believes in Christ is called a Christian. Jews for Jesus are just not smart enough to realize they are Christians.

Answer 7

I would say yes. The Jews were waiting for a messiah, Jesus claimed to be that messiah. They believe their Jewish prophesies came true. They are not Christians. They are what they claim to be, Jews for Jesus. Jesus did not come to create a new religion, He came to fulfill the prophesies of an existing religion.

Answer 8

Biblically speaking a Jew is one who is born of that nation.

A spiritual Jew is one who is circumcised in the heart and can be of the original Jewish nation or of non-Jewish nation (reference to Paul's writing)

In ancient Israel, those who were not of the Jewish nation, but followed their laws and beliefs were called Proselytes.

So, it doesnt really matter whether the Jewish person follows the Mosaic law or follows Jesus, a Jew is one because of birth.

Answer 9

No theyre christians pretending to be Jews

Answer 10

Well, they're certainly not practicing jews, and you might be surprised to learn that most aren't even racially jews (either from their mother OR their father!).

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